Tara VanDerveer

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Tara VanDerveer is a Hall of Fame American basketball coach renowned for building Stanford into a perennial women’s college basketball powerhouse and becoming one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history.

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VanDerveer 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hall of Fame coach
basketball coach
college basketball coach
human
awardReceived AP College Basketball Coach of the Year
Naismith College Coach of the Year
Pac-12 Coach of the Year
Wade Trophy Coach of the Year (WBCA National Coach of the Year)
coachOf Idaho Vandals women's basketball
surface form: Idaho Vandals women's basketball team

Ohio State Buckeyes
surface form: Ohio State Buckeyes women's basketball team

Stanford Cardinal women’s basketball
surface form: Stanford Cardinal women's basketball team

United States women's national basketball team
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1953-06-26
educatedAt Albion College
Indiana University
surface form: Indiana University Bloomington
employer Stanford University
endTime 1985 (Ohio State head coach)
familyName Tara VanDerveer self-linksurface differs
surface form: VanDerveer
fieldOfWork women’s college basketball
fullName Tara VanDerveer self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tara Ann VanDerveer
gender female
genre defensive-minded coaching and motion offense
givenName Tara
hallOfFameInductionYear 2011 (Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame)
hasRelative Heidi VanDerveer
influenced numerous players and assistant coaches who became head coaches
knownFor coaching Stanford Cardinal women’s basketball team
languageSpoken English
league NCAA Division I
memberOf Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame
memberOfSportsTeam Stanford Cardinal women's basketball (head coach)
notableAchievement head coach of USA women’s basketball team that won Olympic gold at 1996 Atlanta Games
multiple NCAA women’s basketball national championships with Stanford
numerous NCAA Final Four appearances with Stanford
one of the winningest coaches in NCAA basketball history
surpassing Pat Summitt for most wins in NCAA women’s basketball coaching
notableWork building Stanford into a perennial women’s basketball powerhouse
occupation basketball coach
placeOfBirth Melrose, Massachusetts
surface form: Melrose, Massachusetts, United States
positionHeld head coach of Idaho Vandals women's basketball
head coach of Ohio State Buckeyes women's basketball
head coach of Stanford Cardinal women's basketball
previousEmployer Idaho Vandals women's basketball
Ohio State University
residence Stanford, California
surface form: Stanford, California, United States
sport basketball
startTime 1980 (Ohio State head coach)
1985 (Stanford head coach)

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Tara VanDerveer familyName Tara VanDerveer self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: VanDerveer
Tara VanDerveer fullName Tara VanDerveer self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Tara Ann VanDerveer